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'Commissioner of Tailgating': Fun article and photo @CNN.com
Love it! Finally something at CNN.com that doesn't make me want to gag or cry. I love seeing people having fun. Nothing's better.
Help with bolognese, please!
I have done a bolognese with sausage. Take the casing off the sausage and chop it up like ground meat. It still takes the time, but only the better part of an afternoon. Don't know if this is what you are looking for. I have not tried this with any other form of meat.
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
Kalamata and nicoise are both my faves!
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'Commissioner of Tailgating': Fun article and photo @CNN.com
Love it! Finally something at CNN.com that doesn't make me want to gag or cry. I love seeing people having fun. Nothing's better.
Help with bolognese, please!
I have done a bolognese with sausage. Take the casing off the sausage and chop it up like ground meat. It still takes the time, but only the better part of an afternoon. Don't know if this is what you are looking for. I have not tried this with any other form of meat.
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
Kalamata and nicoise are both my faves!
Cook the Book: Bolognese Sauce
My bolognese takes most of one afternoon, but it is worth it. 3 days? Gimme a break.
Lost Pantry Items
@hmw0029 I bet it's with mine. Ungrateful little bastards. Anywhoooo.....
our pantry is large and deep and things get lost all the time. I will see something on a daily basis until I need it then it is nowhere to be found. I am in the process of getting some clear bins and in the next week or so hopefully get this monster in shape.
Embarrassing dining moment, do I go back? (Gross out caution!)
Go back. A 3 year old always (or should) gets a free pass. Apologize to the staff and just move on. We had that happen when our youngest son was about 5 at a local restaurant we went to often. The staff was more than nice about it. Anyone who has young children knows that puke happens. :)
Pumpkin Pie Ideas Needed
You might want to try a pumpkin cheesecake. I made one last year for Thanksgiving and it was great. I bet it would taste even better with those sugar pumpkins. I am not posting a recipe as there are so many different ones. The one I used had a gingersnap crust and it did complement the pumpkin wonderfully.
Videos: Feeding a Cat With Chopsticks
Cute, cute, cute. That is one hungry kitty.
Gadgets: Martha Stewart's Pumpkin Carving Kit
@Nikki Goldstein Couldn't think of a better jack-o-lantern I'd like to stick a M80 into. Right?
Gadgets: Martha Stewart's Pumpkin Carving Kit
@Shasher Funny how Che preached equality for all, but laid his head on the pillows of only the best homes in Havana after they were taken away from the owners. I get my info from those who where THERE and SAW what he was really all about. Yeah, Batista was bad, but what replaced it was far, far worse. I find nothing artistic in a murderer. His concept of "true equality" is called COMMUNISM. Let's not paint a pretty picture of it, because there is nothing pretty about it.
Gadgets: Martha Stewart's Pumpkin Carving Kit
@LAQ 1013 Amen to that. When I first saw this pic it was a !?WTF!? moment. It's funny how people will go all PC on the most trivial things, but this guy just seems to get a free pass over and over again. You all who love to cite your research maybe do a little research on this cat. I'll get off the soapbox now, but damn!
"My Baby Does the Hanky Panky": Odd snack food names--yours?
SCREAMING YELLOW ZONKERS!!!! Sorry, just had to. About 20 years ago we live next to a family who we dubbed "The Screaming Yellow Zonkers". 2 adults, 3 kids and a few dogs. Nice people, seldom angry with each other.....just LOUD. If one person was in say the kitchen and another was in say the bedroom they would carry on a conversation, or call the dogs from inside of the house and my favorite:Mom would open up the window and yell for the kids or Dad to tell them whatever was so important that it could not wait until they were inside.
Serious Green: Rent-a-Ruminant to Get a Tough Job Done
@accidentalepicurean When you have had Morning Glory take over your garden, house and your soul maybe you will change your mind.
I just love this! Coolest business ever!!
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
Pioneer Woman
Steamy Kitchen
What's For Lunch, Honey
and natch Serious Eats!
Orlando, FL dining
Le Coq Au Vin. Have not been there but have heard good things. Best described as "country French". The most glowing rec was from a whole family of picky eaters. Everyone loved the dessert souffles. The only downside is that the outside of the building looks like crap.
Greatest Pizza Box Ever Designed: No need to waste!
@hungrychristel Our city recycling does not take greasy pizza boxes.
Wanted: elegant buffet food ideas
How about vitello tonnato? This is served cold and very impressive looking on a buffet table. I have used this recipe from epicurean.com and was very pleased with it. You would need to at least double this.
2 lb Boneless lean veal, preferably eye of round
2 Carrots, coarsely chopped
1 Stalk celery, coarsely chopped
1 Onion, coarsely chopped
5 Sprigs Italian parsely, coarsely chopped
1 cn (3 1/2oz) oil-packed tuna, well drained
3 tb Capers, drained
2 Small sweet pickles, drained and coarsely chopped
3 Anchovy fillets, coarsely chopped
1/4 c Mayonnaise
1/3 c Lemon juice
Black pepper and salt to taste
1/4 c Each olive oil and corn oil
Italian parsely
Lemon slices
Capers
Directions:
Put veal, carrots, celery, onion and parsely in a large saucepan and cover veal with cold water. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer, covered, for 1-1/2 hours. Cool veal completely. Meanwhile, puree tuna, capers, pickles and anchovies together in a food processor or blender. Add mayonnaise, lemon juice and oils; mix until well blended. Add pepper, taste, and add salt if necessary. Slice veal into very thin slices. Arrange on a platter and spoon tuna sauce over. Veal should be completely smothered in sauce.
Serve any leftover sauce on the side. Garnish with Italian parsely, lemon slices and capers.
Yield: 8 servings
Greatest Pizza Box Ever Designed: No need to waste!
Don't you still throw the box out after you eat the pizza????
MOCK MEAT... IT'S WHAT'S FOR DINNER... (really?, why?)
Oh, don't get me started...........
Cook the Book: The Southern Italian Table
Pasta, olive oil,and any greens.
What's your favorite cake?
Loves me a good rum cake! It is one of the few cakes I enjoy that doesn't require frosting. Which brings me to pound cake. Chiff got it right by saying "well made". A well made pound cake can go in many different directions by small additions such as nuts, citrus zest, cocoa powder, spices and even green tea. I have discovered green tea and ginger are a magical combo. A crap pound cake will always be a crap pound cake no matter what is done to it.
On the other end of the spectrum chocolate cake with chocolate mousse filling and chocolate ganauch over the whole cake is something to behold.
Good heat-up-the-house ideas
In our case it would be opening the door.....
What The Yankees Ate Before The World Series Win
CC probably ate everyone that had a taste! Just kidding! Congrats to my boys on #27!!!
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
Never met an olive I didn't love. My current favorite is picholine. It will be something else next week...
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Yes, I'm boring, but I'll pop kalamata after kalamata in my mouth just like candy (but picholines are nice too, and Gaetas... )
Help with bolognese, please!
Emeril has an osso buco ragu that uses veal shanks, but I used bison ribs the first time I ever followed the recipe.
What The Yankees Ate Before The World Series Win
That should be enough for CC. Brett Gardner will sit at the kid's table for scraps.
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
young, fat, green cerignolas. and sadly those gross pimento stuffed ones in the grocery store
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I love kalamatas with pasta and manzanillas plain or chopped in soups
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feta-stuffed green olives. or black oil cured ones. I love the oil most of all- I practically drink it if it's good enough.
'Commissioner of Tailgating': Fun article and photo @CNN.com
@finsbigfan--couldn't have said it better myself!
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
I love the ones that have been pressed into oil. :)
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
Picholine...or a big green one stuffed with a smoked almond. yum.
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I love any kind of cured black or purple olives, but Gaeta and Alfonso are my favorites.
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picholine with a little lemon zest and red pepper....mmmmm, too good
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Kalamata are my favorite!
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Definitely Kalamata, or ones stuffed with parmesan cheese...mmmm
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Olive oil with pepper flakes
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Nicoise olives to eat out of hand.
A hand stuffed blue cheese green olive for my martini.
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Lugano, for real.
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I had to look it up because, like many other above, I'm not familiar with the names, but Lucque olive are quite tasty.
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Kalamata but not in brine--must be oil cured
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I love those little arbequinas.
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Kalamata or black cerignola or regular green pimento-stuffed, or garlic stuffed...
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pimento stuffed "martini" olives. i used to suck the pimentos out then eat the olive--straight from the jar, when parents were drinking martinis
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the olive stuck deep into my bloody mary during a lazy sunday brunch.
Weekend Giveaway: Nudo Olive Tree Adoption
There is no olive I do not love; but I love those dried, shriveled ones from Morocco the best.
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Cook and Tell: Aunt Mary's Carrots
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Making Indian Butter Chicken....what goes with it?
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@redfish LOL